I'm a fan of horror and fantasy books what are the best reads?

Question

ive read harry potter,
and lord of the rings,
is there any other good reads

Answer 1

***For Horror,
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
and
Dracula By Bram Stoker

These both are best. Frankenstein is so vividly written by A 16yrs old girl. written in year 1816-1817
and for Dracula,
Bram Stoker spent 8 years researching the European Folklore. He The book published in year 1897.


***For Fantasy
>>>John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (J.R.R. TOLKIEN)
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Middle-earth
1983–1996 The History of Middle-earth:
The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983)
The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984)
The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
The Return of the Shadow (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)
The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)
The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)
Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 4, including The Notion Club Papers) (1992)
Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
The War of the Jewels (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2) (1994)
The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)

>>>Terry Pratchett
The Bromeliad
1988 Truckers
1990 Diggers
1990 Wings

Answer 2

Well those you mentioned are great fantasy books, mostly The Lord....., but the best horror books are written by Stephen King, you should read Carrie, for example, and see the movie as well.
Oh, and also "Riding the Bullet", which is about a guy who is attending College, but he receives a call telling him that his mom is in the hospital. But she lives in another city, so he decides to go there by taking rides in the road (in the middle of the night, creepy!!!!) and then he starts to live really scary moments with all those who gives him rides. The part when the main character look at a tomb and sees the words that his mother always was telling him "Fun is fun, and done is done", that part is really scary.
There's also a movie of this.

Answer 3

Anne Rice is always a good read, and her Vampire Chronicles and the Tales of the Mayfair Witches are great. Stephen King is also great - for a real page turner try "It". Another fantasy series I didn't see mentioned in any other answers is C. S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia".

Since you've read the Lord of the Rings, try The Hobbit, The Simarillion and all Tolkien's other books - they all kind of fit together.

Dean Koontz is good, Phyllis A. Whitney is good - may not fit quite in this category but she deals with psychics a lot - many, many others. Go to the local library and ask one of the librarians to point you toward other horror and fantasy authors - you are in for tons of great reading!

Answer 4

Horror genre: Stephen King (some of his later books are a bit dubious but he got it back in Cell), Dean Koontz, John Saul, Anne Rices first works (The witches books and most of the vampire chronicles though her last few books can be a hard read)
Fantasy: A few of Clive Barkers works, Weaveworld is one, Neil Gaiman as most of his stuff is excellent. Also there are Wicked, The Ugly Step Sisters, etc and I cant think of who the author is, but she generally tells you what has happened to the less important characters in fairy tales

Answer 5

Try Stephen King for horror - you just cant beat them he also has some very dark fantasy stories too. James Herbert is also a good read. You might also like Dean Koontz. For lighthearted fantasy try Terry Pratchett - he has all the Discworld books - they are hilarious. David and Leigh Eddings are also great fantasy writers. It sounds like you need to rake a trip to a decent library and dabble its the best way to find out what you like.

Answer 6

Strange Candy
By: Laurell K. Hamiton
From the author of the popular vampire series comes a collection of fantasy stories as well as a never before published installment of the famous vampire hunter.

Armageddon's Children
By: Terry Brooks
The first installment of a new series by the beloved fantasy!

u cn aslo read :
chronicles of narnia...
its a very good book for u people to read...

Answer 7

I agree with Katie. Ann Rice's Witches trilogy is great (The Witching Hour, Lasher and Taltos). Very good.

Also, Phillip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy is apparently the new hip series to get into. A bit more mature than Harry Potter but still technically a children's book (I think).

Answer 8

A few years back I read a series by Ann Rice. One book was called "The Witching Hour". The book itself is huge, so you'll be reading for a long time. I loved it, it goes on about generations within a family of , well, you'll find out. If you have a used bookstore or a secondhand place I recommend this book (and series).

Answer 9

I love fantasy books and the best I have read in ages is Armageddons Children by Terry Brooks in which he blends a post apocalyptic world into the fantasy genre.

Answer 10

Try Terry Goodkind - his Sword of Truth series starts with "Wizards First Rule" - there are some reviews here:
http://members.aol.com/misuly/goodkind.htm

Like many others I'd also recommend Dean Koontz ... "Watchers" is quite a good one - it has a very loveable Golden Retriever in it & 'the other' who's not particularly loveable at all. Review here:
http://www.amazon.com/Watchers-Dean-R-Koontz/dp/0425107469

Anne McCaffrey is also good - try her Dragon Riders of Pern series that begins with "Dragonflight". Details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonflight

I'd also recommend Robert McCammon - say "Swan Song" a story of what happens after a nuclear war. More details here:
http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/swan_song.html

Wish I hadn't already read all of these ... quite envy you!